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When spring football practice started last year, Darrell Hazell had been in West Lafayette for just two months and really didn't know his players.

Those players also didn't know Hazell, his assistants and the terminology associated with the new system.

"The language is so familiar now where last year it was foreign," Hazell said. "You can't put a value on understanding what's being said. Now it's not guessing. You're going to be further ahead because of that." ...